Billy Joel has had 33 Top 40 hits and 23 Grammy nominations since signing his first solo recording contract in 1972. In 1990, he was presented with a Grammy Legend Award. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992, Joel was presented with the Johnny Mercer Award, the organization’...
It was released in 1972. Two years later, after the release of the smash-hit albums Piano Man and Street-life Serenade. Billy was named "Best New Male Vocalist" by Cask Box magazine.According to the article, Piano Man and Street-life Serenade were () A.written when Billy Joel was ...
Joel says that the idea for the song came to him just after he'd turned 40. He was in the studio talking to a young adult who was talking about how tough the late '80s were for people his age. Telling Joel, "You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened...
Billy Joel's historic run of shows in the Soviet Union, four years before its breakup, was plagued by his own vocal hoarseness and an infamous onstage freakout over the stage lights being used to confuse the audience. None of that comes through in this sterile-sounding release, which Joel...
The Other Sides of Billy Joel: Six Case Studies Revealing the Sociologist, the Balladeer, and the Historian In these six songs, Joel adopted new roles, roles that he had previously eschewed. In "Pressure" and "We Didn't Start the Fire," Joel becomes a ... ...
Two Thousand Years - Billy Joel This Is The Time - Billy Joel New York State of Mind - Billy Joel&Tony Bennett 新歌推荐 乔迁之喜大吉大利 - 肖东&红蔷薇 乔迁之喜大吉大利(DJ阿能版) - 肖东 观世音菩萨心咒 (木鱼唱诵) - 赖鸿根
This was a deliberate decision on Joel's part.River of Dreamswas "a song cycle" that was "written and recorded pretty much in the order it's presented on the album," Joel told theDaily News. "It begins with a crisis of faith, a search for justice. In the end, the guy realizes th...
In a time when record collections are updated as often as wardrobes, Billy Joel seemed destined to be another fad. True, his 1977 single “Just the Way You Are” was a smash hit, but both he and his music seemed too normal to make it in the world of musical flash. For one thing,...
Timeless tunes fromBilly Joel(“Piano Man”),Gloria Gaynor(“I Will Survive”),The Supremes(“Where Did Our Love Go”),John Coltrane(“A Love Supreme”) andMerle Haggard(“Mama Tried”) have been selected for induction into the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. ...
BRIAN MESS